Hamas says its members carried out W.Bank attack

GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas's armed wing said in a statement on Friday that its members were responsible for an infiltration into a West Bank settlement that ended with the death of the two Palestinian militants.

Jewish settlers overpowered and shot dead the two Palestinians after they entered the Jewish settlement of Kfar Etzion near Bethlehem on Thursday night, the Israeli army said.

In a separate incident near Jerusalem, Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli border policeman.